On 1/18/08, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/01/2008, Carl Beckhorn cbeckhorn@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:22:13PM +0000, Andrew Gray wrote:
Names and other proper nouns have a "right" pronunciation regardless of where you are, though, so we can get away with it
If that were true, the situation would be much easier. It isn't uncommon for pronunciation of a name to vary significantly from one dialect to another.
Yes, but we can argue that the one they themselves use is the "right" one :-)
"Birmingham"